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NotesIntroduction: An Unfinished War / G. Ward Hubbs1. Horace Porter, ‘‘The Surrender at Appomattox Court House,’’Battles and Lead-ers, ed. Ned Bradford (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts,1956),615.2. My study of Civil War diarists found none that continued once they returnedhome. See G. Ward Hubbs,Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards,Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia(Athens: University ofGeorgia Press,2003), xviii.3.WilliamFaulkner,The Unvanquished(New York: Random House,1938),229,quoted in George C. Rable,But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politicsof Reconstruction(Athens: University of Georgia Press,1984),32.4. Among the few earlier historians to buck the trend was Avery Craven, whodecided to treat ‘‘the so-called Reconstruction as the final phase of the American CivilWar’’ in hisReconstruction: The Ending of the Civil War(New York: Holt, Rinehart, andWinston,1969), iv. Extending the Blundering Generations thesis, Craven argued that thepoliticians of the1850s and early ’60s led the country into the horrors of Sharpsburg andCold Harbor by their failure to resolve their differences by discourse and compromise.The post-Appomattox politicians continued their irresponsibility, albeit without resort-ing to massed armies, by deferring solutions to future generations. Craven thus saw con-tinuity across the Civil War and Reconstruction where others saw only discontinuity(iv–v). Others who sought to extend the periodization included Rembert Wallace Pat-rick, whoseThe Reconstruction of the Nation(New York: Oxford University Press,1967)emphasized economics and moved the end of Reconstruction up to the turn of the cen-tury. Herman Belz argued inReconstructing the Union: Theory and Policy during the CivilWar(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press,1969) that the beginning of Reconstructionmust be moved back to before Fort Sumter, as politicians tried to avert division.5. Benjamin H. Severance has just published a new book on the Tennessee stateguard,Tennessee’s Radical Army: The State Guard and Its Role in Reconstruction,1867–1869(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,2005), which argues that the guardshould have been used more forcefully.6.Rable,But There Was No Peace,15. Gary W. Gallagher succinctly argues thatRable’s exploration of violence in Reconstruction argues against continuity inThe Con-federate War(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,1997),206–7n1.7. The phrase may have been usd first by Allen W. Trelease in hisWhite Terror: TheKu Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction(New York: Harper & Row,1970),xlvii.8. I am currently completing a book about an1868encounter among the carpetbag-ger Lakin, a scalawag, a freedman, and a klansman in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.9. C. Vann Woodward, introduction toRehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port RoyalExperiment, by Willie Lee Rose (New York: Bobbs-Merrill,1964), xv.10. G. Ward Hubbs,Guarding Greensboro: A Confederate Company in the Making ofa Southern Community(Athens: University of Georgia Press,2003).11. Despite titles that claim otherwise, I have yet to find an adequate study of theeffects of the Civil War on a Northern town.PAGE 205.................17748$NOTE 04-26-10 14:57:39 PS
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NotesIntroduction: An Unfinished War / G. Ward Hubbs1. Horace Porter, ‘‘The Surrender at Appomattox Court House,’’Battles and Lead-ers, ed. Ned Bradford (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts,1956),615.2. My study of Civil War diarists found none that continued once they returnedhome. See G. Ward Hubbs,Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards,Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia(Athens: University ofGeorgia Press,2003), xviii.3.WilliamFaulkner,The Unvanquished(New York: Random House,1938),229,quoted in George C. Rable,But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politicsof Reconstruction(Athens: University of Georgia Press,1984),32.4. Among the few earlier historians to buck the trend was Avery Craven, whodecided to treat ‘‘the so-called Reconstruction as the final phase of the American CivilWar’’ in hisReconstruction: The Ending of the Civil War(New York: Holt, Rinehart, andWinston,1969), iv. Extending the Blundering Generations thesis, Craven argued that thepoliticians of the1850s and early ’60s led the country into the horrors of Sharpsburg andCold Harbor by their failure to resolve their differences by discourse and compromise.The post-Appomattox politicians continued their irresponsibility, albeit without resort-ing to massed armies, by deferring solutions to future generations. Craven thus saw con-tinuity across the Civil War and Reconstruction where others saw only discontinuity(iv–v). Others who sought to extend the periodization included Rembert Wallace Pat-rick, whoseThe Reconstruction of the Nation(New York: Oxford University Press,1967)emphasized economics and moved the end of Reconstruction up to the turn of the cen-tury. Herman Belz argued inReconstructing the Union: Theory and Policy during the CivilWar(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press,1969) that the beginning of Reconstructionmust be moved back to before Fort Sumter, as politicians tried to avert division.5. Benjamin H. Severance has just published a new book on the Tennessee stateguard,Tennessee’s Radical Army: The State Guard and Its Role in Reconstruction,1867–1869(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,2005), which argues that the guardshould have been used more forcefully.6.Rable,But There Was No Peace,15. Gary W. Gallagher succinctly argues thatRable’s exploration of violence in Reconstruction argues against continuity inThe Con-federate War(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,1997),206–7n1.7. The phrase may have been usd first by Allen W. Trelease in hisWhite Terror: TheKu Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction(New York: Harper & Row,1970),xlvii.8. I am currently completing a book about an1868encounter among the carpetbag-ger Lakin, a scalawag, a freedman, and a klansman in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.9. C. Vann Woodward, introduction toRehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port RoyalExperiment, by Willie Lee Rose (New York: Bobbs-Merrill,1964), xv.10. G. Ward Hubbs,Guarding Greensboro: A Confederate Company in the Making ofa Southern Community(Athens: University of Georgia Press,2003).11. Despite titles that claim otherwise, I have yet to find an adequate study of theeffects of the Civil War on a Northern town.PAGE 205.................17748$NOTE 04-26-10 14:57:39 PS
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. Acknowledgments xv
  5. Introduction: An Unfinished War 1
  6. 1 A Victory Spoiled: West Tennessee Unionists during Reconstruction 9
  7. 2 ‘‘I Wanted a Gun’’: Black Soldiers and White Violence in Civil War and Postwar Kentucky and Missouri 30
  8. 3 ‘‘The Rebel Spirit in Kentucky’’: The Politics of Readjustment in a Border State, 1865–1868 54
  9. 4 The Crucible of Reconstruction: Unionists and the Struggle for Alabama’s Postwar Home Front 69
  10. 5 ‘‘A New Field of Labor’’: Antislavery Women, Freedmen’s Aid, and Political Power 88
  11. 6 ‘‘Objects of Humanity’’: The White Poor in Civil War and Reconstruction Georgia 101
  12. 7 Racial Identity and Reconstruction: New Orleans’s Free People of Color and the Dilemma of Emancipation 122
  13. 8 ‘‘My Children on the Field’’: Wade Hampton, Biography, and the Roots of the Lost Cause 139
  14. 9 Rebels in War and Peace: Their Ethos and Its Impact 154
  15. 10 Reconstructing Loyalty: Love, Fear, and Power in the Postwar South 173
  16. 11 Reconstructing the Nation, Reconstructing the Party: Postwar Republicans and the Evolution of a Party 183
  17. Notes 205
  18. Contributors 259
  19. Index 261
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. Acknowledgments xv
  5. Introduction: An Unfinished War 1
  6. 1 A Victory Spoiled: West Tennessee Unionists during Reconstruction 9
  7. 2 ‘‘I Wanted a Gun’’: Black Soldiers and White Violence in Civil War and Postwar Kentucky and Missouri 30
  8. 3 ‘‘The Rebel Spirit in Kentucky’’: The Politics of Readjustment in a Border State, 1865–1868 54
  9. 4 The Crucible of Reconstruction: Unionists and the Struggle for Alabama’s Postwar Home Front 69
  10. 5 ‘‘A New Field of Labor’’: Antislavery Women, Freedmen’s Aid, and Political Power 88
  11. 6 ‘‘Objects of Humanity’’: The White Poor in Civil War and Reconstruction Georgia 101
  12. 7 Racial Identity and Reconstruction: New Orleans’s Free People of Color and the Dilemma of Emancipation 122
  13. 8 ‘‘My Children on the Field’’: Wade Hampton, Biography, and the Roots of the Lost Cause 139
  14. 9 Rebels in War and Peace: Their Ethos and Its Impact 154
  15. 10 Reconstructing Loyalty: Love, Fear, and Power in the Postwar South 173
  16. 11 Reconstructing the Nation, Reconstructing the Party: Postwar Republicans and the Evolution of a Party 183
  17. Notes 205
  18. Contributors 259
  19. Index 261
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